Black Ops 2 PS3 patch 1.04 live, details so far

We’ve just checked Black Ops 2 on the PS3 and found patch 1.04 for download, which seems to have gone live only moments ago. The details about this Black Ops 2 PS3 update are sketchy with full 1.04 patch notes expected within the next 24 hours. It is hoped by a large number of gamers that this latest update fixes the crashing and freezing problems PS3 players are experiencing, although it is fair that not all gamers report the same severity of issues.

Over the last couple of days Black Ops 2 players on the PS3 have been increasingly frustrated at certain problems, and this resulted in increasing posts in official forums asking when patch 1.04 would release for the PS3, which we already knew had been in development. This led to the Twitter account for Activision Support posting a short tweet about the next Black Ops 2 patch, which you can see in the image below. This basically explained that the 1.04 patch would go live on PS3 in the US at 11PM PST, which would mean a global rollout to the UK and other countries would progress after this time. We can confirm that the UK has now received this latest update.

Do you see Black Ops 2 patch 1.04 on your PS3, and if so what’s your country and location? The tweet explains that the Xbox 360 will receive its next title update this weekend, and patch notes about what has changed will arrive in due course. Our PS3 Super Slim had no crashing problems although the older model we have did experience hard resets after freezing, which we’ve played for around 30 minutes since Black Ops 2 patch 1.04 without any issues, so fingers crossed this finally fixes the problem for everyone.

Just updated and it is now not allowing me to sign in to the playstation network. With this error 8002a548. I read their website, and it looks like that error is supposed to be a wifi problem. But I’m directly connected and my internet is working because I’m on this website. Black ops 2 is so glitchy. I’m so close to returning it.

roliedoz

same here

roliedoz

all it caused is for my fatboy ps3 to freeze twice as much as before. good game, too bad its broken

Added the ability to “View League Teams” from any player’s Playercard.

Added the ability to “View Playercard” from League solo leaderboards.

Added a number of security system enhancements.

Issues
Addressed

Fixed a rare hang (“Awaiting Textures”) upon loading into maps when joining
a session in progress after fresh boot.

Game now resets the Care Package for a non-owner if the owner re-rolls the
package using the Engineer perk.

Players with Black Hat PDA can no longer hack a Care Package faster than the
owner can capture it.

Addressed an exploit where modified console hackers could maliciously spread
infected films to other users.

Added a fail-safe to prevent spawn trapping in CTF.

Increased sight checks on turrets to improve spawning algorithms.

Fixed a number of new UI error messages reported by users.

Addressed a number of issues that would cause friendly/enemy color
indicators on equipment and scorestreaks to display as the wrong team.

Improved overall Theater and Live Streaming stability.

Improved film rendering stability and made progression bar more accurate
while rendering a film.

Addressed issues which prevented some master challenges from being
completed.

Precision challenge “Wet Work” will now unlock with 10 kills.

The wins challenge will now account for all FFA modes when ending a match
with a tie (if you are in the top 3).

Players that help with the “Synchronized Attack” challenge now get credit
for it.

Players will not be able to manually take control of their AGR if they die
at the exact moment that their AGR deploys.

Emblem Editor no longer closes the current emblem when discarding changes.

Players using Ghost will no longer be invisible at all times in Custom Games
with the mini-map option set to “constant”.

Players using Ghost and a Suppressor attachment will no longer appear on the
enemy’s minimap while shooting and moving while a UAV is up.

The median for the K/D graph in the AAR is set to 1.0 instead of 0.0.

Players can no longer get on top of the shrubs in Nuketown 2025.

Thermal vision overlay no longer appears using the VTOL glitch.

Kills from the explosion on the explosive crossbow bolt now count towards
challenges.

Counter UAV no longer remains for the rest of the game after a host
migration.

Clan tag is no longer locked immediately after prestige.

Offline profiles can no longer be exploited to join online games when an
online profile is also signed in.

Multi-team games no longer count as a tie if an entire team quits.

Fixed an area in Express where K9 Unit dogs could get stuck.

EMP grenades no longer affect the CODcaster HUD.

Party Privacy count no longer affects how many bots will spawn in Combat
Training.

Shadows seen through sniper scopes now render more correctly.

Players can no longer stand on invisible collision in Carrier.

“Drop Shot” medal is no longer awarded after standing back up.

Players can now copy a custom class to the extra prestige slot.

Gameplay Balancing

The
following is a list of numerous gameplay balancing tweaks that were made after
thorough review of statistical data from usage patterns of weapons, equipment,
perks and scorestreaks since
launch.
Scorestreaks:

UAV: cost increased from 350 to 425.

Lightning Strike: added 750ms delay

Equipment/grenades:

Bouncing Betty: increased the grace period between trigger and activation by
200ms.

I can’t sign in to my psnetwork, happened right in the middle of the udate

john

Just got to Ohio. 3:30am

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1140112084 David Torres

FIXED NOTHING INVOLVING THE FREEZING smh

fdawg

yup LA 1:11 am

http://www.facebook.com/muttonman1 Jesse Hillis

No more respawn time when playing hardcore team deathmatch.

http://www.facebook.com/SourPanch Jesse James Gutierrez

If it aint broken dont fix it.
They broke it

Also removed HC FFA

An Duong

can someone please tell me if you are experiencing the same problem: Right after i updated the latest patch 1.04, for some reason when i went on my multiplayer (i am currently lvl 55) and i lost all my unlock tokens, all my unlocks have now been locked except the guns, all my scorestreaks and wild cards have been locked??? someone please help!!!

Richard

“Fixed a rare hang (“Awaiting Textures”) upon loading into maps when joining a session in progress after fresh boot”

- LOL these guys are clueless or plain lying, everyone I know had this problem. By the looks of some of the comments already, I’m still not going to stick that stupid game in my PS3.

rick bertrand

I think I figured it out.If you’re on an older system,let’s say pre-unhackable Slim and pre-SuperSlim,your system will be prone to overheating issues.This leads to
repeated shut downs and system rebuilds.Eventually the end result is
YLOD…and then you’re done…or the same process kills your bluray.This is why the last ‘fix’ was for the connectivity issue…and the 1.04 update was for weapons tweaks mainly. NOT THE OVERHEAT ISSUE.Don’t expect one either.

So…here’s my solution…I’ve been running my ps3 on its side.Its sitting on
a stand…and I have a big fan blowing directly on it.I did this to
test my idea…and I’ve now been playing online,both Multiplayer and Zombie for over an hour now.I tried it without the house fan and the freezing started again.I let my PS3 cool down,hooked up the fan…and now I can play as long as I want.

Save your system…and try this.I hope this works for you…!!!

kev

so what this patch did nothing for the freezing? I am wondering if i should try to reload it again on my ps3 or is it just gonna be a wasts of time… my ps3 was dealing with issues from the game disc read errors freezing and so on..had to restore system wiped every thign off…what do i do…did this fix the FREEZING ISSUE?